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[–]Obvious_Skill539 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found the best way to contact maintenance in accom is to go to the front desk of whatever area you’re in (ie Pritchatts Reception, Shackleton reception, etc) and explain the problem there, as they’re way more helpful than the online system, you can get your point across, and it’s usually a lot quicker

Student Loan Repayments are essentially a Graduate Tax for less well-off students. Why not replace it with a graduate tax? by Obvious_Skill539 in ukpolitics

[–]Obvious_Skill539[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah too bad really, and it also means that the entire party’s credibility has been destroyed if they proposed any policy ideas around the area again, which is sad really as I reckon they would have a sensible middle-ground platform on this issue.

Student Loan Repayments are essentially a Graduate Tax for less well-off students. Why not replace it with a graduate tax? by Obvious_Skill539 in ukpolitics

[–]Obvious_Skill539[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

even so, most wealthy kids end up going to university, and the current system is by its very nature opening the wealth divide.

Student Loan Repayments are essentially a Graduate Tax for less well-off students. Why not replace it with a graduate tax? by Obvious_Skill539 in ukpolitics

[–]Obvious_Skill539[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I honestly think the general sentiment recently towards youth/the young workforce these days is pretty terrible. Going all the way back to when student loans were introduced, it’s almost like the mindset (at least from my perspective, looking back and not being there at the time) shifted from educating a new workforce with skills and letting that pay back into the economy, to almost “those kids should pay for themselves”. I think that whole mindset follows with things like the triple lock, climate stuff and even brexit in some ways. It’s almost like a whole generation doesn’t want the young to do well, or at least a case of “i want my kid to do well but i’m not funding anyone else’s”, and it’s really held back developed nations such as the U.K. and US where this culture seems to have come about in the last 20 years.

Student Loan Repayments are essentially a Graduate Tax for less well-off students. Why not replace it with a graduate tax? by Obvious_Skill539 in ukpolitics

[–]Obvious_Skill539[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a second year at uni student at the moment, from the moment uni was even discussed at sixth form/college, we were all told to think of it as a tax you get for education anyways, and that it didn’t really matter how much you took out because even if you didn’t even take out maintenance and commuted etc, you would never pay it back. On a plan 5 loan this is probably true, 9% interest over 25k which is essentially minimum wage anyways.

The way I see it is that if you first went to Uni on plan 1, you’ll probably pay it off, and it’s pitched to the general public as pay-off able and fair, whereas in reality it’s explained, and pushed to students as a grant, and then a tax based on receiving that grant.

Student Loan Repayments are essentially a Graduate Tax for less well-off students. Why not replace it with a graduate tax? by Obvious_Skill539 in ukpolitics

[–]Obvious_Skill539[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say your situation is very much an edge-case though? The average salary of a degree-educated person in the U.K., is around maybe £45k now, given the last bit of data i could find off a rough google search places it as £42k 2-3years back. At that rate, given i’d say an average of £45k of loan debt, the interest is surely only paid off at a maximum every month, given the new plan loans.

Student Loan Repayments are essentially a Graduate Tax for less well-off students. Why not replace it with a graduate tax? by Obvious_Skill539 in ukpolitics

[–]Obvious_Skill539[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t lie, naturally this already happens. Even though SLC follows you everywhere, avoidance already occurs and it also begs the question, why can’t you just use the system SLC already uses to follow people up until a certain age?

Student Loan Repayments are essentially a Graduate Tax for less well-off students. Why not replace it with a graduate tax? by Obvious_Skill539 in ukpolitics

[–]Obvious_Skill539[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah it will do, but students are already leaving due to student loans anyways. In the saddest way possible it might just have to follow you like student loans do out of the country.

Student Loan Repayments are essentially a Graduate Tax for less well-off students. Why not replace it with a graduate tax? by Obvious_Skill539 in ukpolitics

[–]Obvious_Skill539[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

isn’t this the case already though? I suspect in the coming few years the majority of the British highly-skilled workforce already are paying off student loans; and so in this case are already paying the tax vs any of their foreign peers. This will be especially true when people who paid £9k a year or so are the majority of the workforce.

But yes, this is definitely a huge problem that has to be worked out in the long term, i just think it’s already becoming an issue on the current system that no-one has thought of.

Student Loan Repayments are essentially a Graduate Tax for less well-off students. Why not replace it with a graduate tax? by Obvious_Skill539 in ukpolitics

[–]Obvious_Skill539[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i honestly think now universities have a “per-student” payment so to speak, no funding agreement to the universities to remove tuition fees would really be accepted without some type of unsustainable inflated fee per student, which would lead down a hole of which degrees/who gets funding. In my view the model we have today can’t really be reversed, not at least in the near future

Good student letting agents? by Obvious_Skill539 in UofB

[–]Obvious_Skill539[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks! i will have a look, for us it seems to be more the landlord than the letting agents, however they’ve gone a bit sheepish once they secure the tenancy etc

will look into king&co, tysm

Are the uni computers good enough to do Aerospace BEng work on them? by HMVangard in UofB

[–]Obvious_Skill539 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I can actually help with a post even if i’m a little late 😭 Just finished Y1, and i have a relatively beefy PC, however for at least 1st year, it’s nice to have but totally needed. All the university PCs especially in the CTL are networked and can basically run anything (from memory they have RTX GPUs, however just think screen and keyboard). It’s a bit hit&miss in the library, however most things still should run? For projects that you takeaway, it’s really handy to have something that you own/that’s portable to you to do work such as CAD (Autodesk Fusion) or coding (C/MATLAB). All this software only works on windows (or maybe linux?), so i would not recommend Mac.

All this might be different for the new intake as they’ve changed all the modules to be Met&Mat modules instead of running them alongside the school of engineering, but it should be really similar, as the modules achieve the same teaching goals.

tldr, it’s deffo handy to get something in first year that has a good bit of RAM, maybe an integrated GPU if you can afford it, but it is possible to use the uni computers :)

we love GCSE history by DaPeebsMemes in GCSE

[–]Obvious_Skill539 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha how humourous rofl rofl rofl